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It's very good so far, only got it today but already almost half way through. It's basically about some alternate world where it's all run by chimps and bonobos and there's this chimp that thinks he's a human. In that world the bonobos are the chimps' equivalent of a black person, so there are references to "bonoboism" and stuff like that.
Also, this book is not for the prudish, seriously some of the stuff on there is just pervy
"Jenny" by Douglas Preston is very good but it will break your heart. It's about a family that raises a chimp to live as a human ( as
much as possible). The story is fictional but he states that all the incidents described in the book are incidents that happened to
one of five different chimps. Did I say that right? Things start going wrong when Jenny reaches sexual maturity. She doesn't
fully belong in either the human or chimp world and the results are tragic. It is well written though.
I might check that one out, sounds very good. I was actually writing my own little story about something similar, but it's about a circus chimp instead of a pet one.
06 Oct 2010, 2:24 pm
Exiles ultimate collection book 1 and a few others. 
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09 Oct 2010, 5:28 pm
Surface Detail - new Culture novel. Yay!
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19 Oct 2010, 1:44 pm
Surface Detail was very good; only gripe was one strand of the plot was a bit disconnected from the others, but that aside it's filled with Cultural goodness. Think there was a mocking nod to Neal Asher in there at one point, too, but that could just be me projecting; I'd love to know what Banks thinks of him as they're treating on the same theme from different viewpoints. 
Now on with Cloud Atlas, which is strange; nearly put it down during the first chapter (which was approaching Night Land style prose) but the author is clearly 'avin a larf and trying for as many styles as he can cram into the book; persevere I.
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